Albert S. Berry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Seaton Berry (May 13, 1836 - January 6, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in Fairfield (now Dayton), Campbell County, Kentucky, Berry attended the public schools. He was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1855 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the bar and practiced. He served as prosecuting attorney of Newport, Kentucky, in 1859. He served in the Confederate States Army throughout the Civil War. He served as mayor of Newport in 1870 and served five terms. He served as member of the State senate in 1878 and 1884.
Berry was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1901). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900. He resumed the practice of law. He was appointed and subsequently elected judge of the seventeenth judicial district of Kentucky and served from 1905 until his death in Newport, Kentucky, January 6, 1908. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
